Detective Ghost Empress

56 Life in my hands

” What did you say?” Zhai Tianyu raised his head, his eyes glinting sharply as he looked at her with a stern face. From just his expression it was enough to see that he was going to force-feed poison to Liu Hui Ying if she so much as dared to say nonsense to him.

“I said that if you want your aunt to be on her way to reincarnation then you better stay away from me and be as respectful as you can or else I will leave her to walk on the surface of the earth without so much as moving a finger,” Liu Hui Ying leaned forward on her elbow that was resting on her knees when Zhai Tianyu got on his feet and aimed the sword at her neck.

Jia Li and the others immediately flew next to Liu Hui Ying prepared to make a move when Liu Hui Ying lowered her head and looked at the sword that was aiming for her neck, for a second she did not speak before she scoffed and said, ” Impertinent, aren’t you? Still can’t see who is the one in charge here?”

” I have your life in my hands, my queen, literally,” he replied as he edged the sharp end of the sword towards Liu Hui Ying. ” I can kill you if I want given that you dared to curse someone from the imperial family.”

” Kill me he says,” Liu Hui Ying rolled her eyes as she turned to Li Gang and raised her brows as she said, ” What are you waiting for? Christmas?”

” I was waiting for your order, who knows? If something happens, later on, you might dump the blame on my head,” Li Gang rubbed his hands and then placed them flat on the blade of the sword before smiling at Zhai Tianyu. “It’s nothing personal mate, but you dared to aim your sword at my master, I will have to protect her right?”

And before Zhai Tianyu could understand what was happening, his world tilted and then rolled to the left. With a loud thump, Zhai Tianyu fell on his back as he gasped for breath, his sword lying a few feet away from him while he was looking at Liu Hui Ying upside down.

That audacious woman smiled at him causing his cheeks to redden as he scrambled to his feet and turned to look at her with a heavily offended look on his face. ” Do you know what you have done? How dare you attack the Emperor? I can have your hands chopped you know!”

” Go ahead then,” said Liu Hui Ying with a tone as if she was coaxing a small child as she looked at the man in front of her. ” What are you going to write in the imperial decree? That I ordered a ghost to attack you? And logically speaking I did not even so much as touch you since I cannot get closer to men. So, if you can... you can try to chop the arms of my ghost servant.”

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With that, she leaned back on her couch and then waved her hand casually at Li Gang. “Go on offer your hands to the esteemed majesty, I bet that he will like to spend the night trying to chop your hands.”

Li Gang did as she ask him, he held his hands in front of Zhai Tianyu and smiled at him. ” Here you go, your majesty ... if you can .. . My hands are excited to be chopped into pieces, it has been years since I last felt any pain.”

Zhai Tianyu was furious at the jeers and teasing that were being aimed at him. He narrowed his eyes at Liu Hui Ying, he would have very much wrung the neck of the woman who was so disrespectful to him but he knew that if he was to so much as try to get close to her then her ghost servants would attack him first.

Maybe he would be possessed and made to do things that he did not want to, so under the pressure and after careful consideration, he decided to take swallow his anger temporarily. That’s right temporarily. He was definitely going to make Liu Hui Ying pay sooner or later for the disrespect she has shown to him.

” I will let this slide,” he said as he slid back to his seat and then placed his hands on top of his knees as he continued, ” But I would like to have you know that you cannot make any rude and uncomfortable remarks regarding my late imperial aunt. She passed away in peace and you making such comments will definitely upset my grandmother.”

” There is a chance that your grandmother will be upset but she will be more upset to find out that your aunt is still hanging around her,” Liu Hui Ying’s smile widened when the Emperor’s eyes narrowed ever so slightly. ” Why do you think that I was able to treat your grandmother esteemed majesty? It is because she is being haunted by your aunt’s soul. If you do not believe me then you can have an imperial physician check up on her... you will be surprised to find that even though your grandmother looks perfectly well, she is getting weaker and weaker by the day....most probably she only has a few months left.”

This time Zhai Tianyu could no longer sit still, he jumped to his feet and stared at Liu Hui Ying fiercely. To him, his grandmother was like the only beacon of light in this grim world, he could not lose her. He stared at Liu Hui Ying long and hard before he turned around, intending to leave but then he paused and then looked over his shoulder as he said, ” If I find out that what you have said is nothing but a bunch of foolish words then I will have your neck severed from your body.”

” Bring me some gold the next time you come looking for me then,” said Liu Hui Ying not at all worried by the threat Zhai Tianyu has given her. ” If you are so generous with your threats make sure that you reward me handsomely in case it turns out to be the truth.”

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